An alert I recieved from Amazon.com this morning:
“We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Vol. 1 have also purchased White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on DVD.
Description
Through the powerful recollections of atomic bomb survivors, White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an extraordinary new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first — and hopefully last — uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors – many who have never spoken publicly before – and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath. In a succession of riveting personal accounts, the film reveals both unimaginable suffering and extraordinary human resilience.”
You might not see the connection, but a little known fact is that Popeye the Sailor died while serving as a crewmember on the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, and was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine.
